For many of Oklahoma City’s homeless, library offers refuge from reality, the cold
For many of Oklahoma City’s homeless, the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library is more than just a civic jewel. For them, it’s a place to put aside, if only for a while, the realities of their harsh existence on the cold winter streets.
On a freezing gray afternoon with snow clinging to sidewalks, Jeff Hancock relaxed at a table in the warm lobby of the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library.
Charles Scott, left, and Jeff Hancock, who are homeless, talk Friday outside the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library. Photo by Phillip O’Connor, The Oklahoman
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He’d read the newspaper, checked his Facebook page and was chatting with Charles Scott, a man he’d met a few days before.
Soon, they would head to a homeless shelter to catch a hot...
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